John Williams
John Williams
John Towner Williamsis an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for the majority of his feature films. Other notable works by Williams...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth8 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
Preliminary indications from the school indicate (the student) probably said it in passing, as an off-hand joke. But you don't just joke around about things like that. Of all the times in the world to make a joke about bombing a school, this was clearly not the time.
Schools need to illustrate the connection between curriculum and the real world. Students can spout back lessons but they don't know what it means.
Every day, we get concerned about the age of the school buses in this county. You've got to keep in mind that they're built as buses to start with, and they carry young people who may not treat them as if they were their very own, so to have these buses running 13 or 14 years ... is not the best way to do business.
As soon as we found out that he was arrested, we moved into action. We told the school that he is no longer there, and I'm going to assign him somewhere there are no children available.
What was so scary about it was it was still school time, the kids were walking around. There as a group of kids right there when I took off to help her. They shouldn't chase people around the neighborhoods like this especially with the school at the corner. They should have let up a long time ago.
If we asked the various families to buy computers, this would only have widened the digital divide. So the school superintendent and the supervisors insisted that this be a grass-roots effort. We wanted to ensure that all the children in the sixth grade would have the opportunity to be a part of this.
Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.
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We turned the ball over too much, which helped (the Bulldogs) with their run, but they played well defensively and we just didn't play well enough to beat a good team like that.
We think it (interest in absentee voting) is going to go up and might be slightly higher than we anticipated, maybe 10 percent or 15 percent higher.
We're going north, wherever the storm isn't going.
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